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Great Northern Frog Hop Fresh Hopped Pale Ale

Radd Icenoggle — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:30:24 +0000

Great Northern Frog Hop Fesh Hopped Pale Ale

It’s a bottle that has been staring out from the cooler at me for quite awhile. I never quite picked it up, always choosing another beer. The other day, I finally grabbed the Frog Hop Fresh Hopped Pale Ale for the Great Northern Brewing Company in Whitefish, MT

Great Northern Frog Hop Fresh Hopped Pale Ale Particulars

5.0% ABV
Pilsner and Vienna malts
Green, fresh Cascade, Mt Hood, Noble and Chinook hops. Exact hop bill varies from year to year

Great Northern Frog Hop Fresh Hopped Pale Ale Notes

Appearance: Somewhat hazy golden to amber in color on the pour. The head was purest white and one-finger high.

Aroma: Citrus and resin with a vegetative green underlying aroma.

Mouthfeel: I was really looking for a little more carbonation.

Taste: Full of those classic Cascade flavors with tons of grapefruit and pine resin. The same greenness is present in the taste as the nose. It is far too pronounced for the my tastes.

Overall: The Frog Hop Fresh Hopped Pale Ale is a good beer, but it wasn’t rememberable. Maybe, the green taste hit me a little hard. I give it another try, though. If at first you don’t succeed…

Smoked Chili Pale Ale

Radd Icenoggle — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:02:17 +0000

Finally, after a long hiatus, I am finally back to brewing. I just went to the combo “garden” and homebrew shop in downtown Missoula, and picked up some interesting ingredients and winged it.

Fermentables
3 lbs. – Dry Light Malt Extract
0.25 lbs. - Smoked Pale Malt
1 lbs. – Northwest Pale Malt
1 lbs. - 40L Crystal
0.5 lbs. – Oat Flakes

Hops
4.0 oz. – Wild Montana ~4% AA at 60 Minutes
2 oz. – Cascade ~6% AA at 20 minutes
2 oz. – Cascade ~6% AA at 2 minutes

Yeast
Wyeast American Ale

4 chipotle chilis *UPDATE*

Steep all grains for 30 minutes at ~150 F	Add in the 3 lbs. of dry light malt extract
Hops in the wort	Everything in the fermenter
Now the waiting begins

406 Brewing’s C-4 Pale Ale

Radd Icenoggle — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:00:36 +0000

C-4, that ever popular plastic explosive, is the right name for this powerful pale ale.

C-4 Pale Ale Particulars

6.2% ABV
70 IBUs from Northwest hops

C-4 Pale Ale Notes

Appearance: The subtlest of amber tones with an one-finger white head.

Aroma: Tons of resin and, perhaps, grapefruit.

Mouthfeel: Clean, super clean. It was a fresh palette with each sip.

Taste: This one definitely tended to be more of an IPA than a traditional pale ale, but hell, I don’t really care about labels. The taste was full grapefruit and pleasant resin (I know, weird description).

Overall: A wonderful summer ale. A little high on the alcohol for a session ale, but 3 of these and you won’t care anyway.

HOP to It – (Honey-Oat-Pale)

Radd Icenoggle — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:51:06 +0000

Today, I fired up the propane burner and brewed up a new beer, the HOP to IT. It’s an experimental pale ale with flaked oats and honey. The oats should add a creamy mouth feel and the honey will lend it’s floral elements to the fermentation. The recipe particulars are below.

malt and fermentables

%	LB	Malt or Fermentable	ppg	°L
70%	7	Pale Liquid Extract	36	0
20%	2	Honey	35	1
10%	1	Oats, Flaked	37	1

Original Gravity: 1.070
(1.062 to 1.073)
Final Gravity: 1.022
(1.020 to 1.024)
Color: 1° SRM; (Clear to Light Yellow)
Mash Efficiency: 75%

hops

use	time	oz	variety	form	aa
Boil	60 mins	1.75	Chinook	leaf	13.0
Boil	15 mins	0.25	Chinook	leaf	13.0

Bitterness: 22.7 HBU; 54.1 IBU; ƒ: Average
BU:GU: 0.77

yeast

ale yeast in liquid form with high flocculation

Alcohol: 6.4% A.B.V.; 4.9% A.B.W.
Calories: 232 per 12 oz.